Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Knee Swollen From Shuffling

737 grass strip

This picture comes from here .


Since the decline of contrails comedy gives us the best time to talk about things, I continue here discourse related to the operations of 737 from semi prepared runways began in comments to previous post with this picture reported by blekoldshaflo.

We used to see the airlines, even the small 737, in large airports with long runways with asphalt or concrete and large areas of the same materials. So does something imagine the same aircraft to operate from runways that are actually fields. Yet this happens relatively often and the 737 is a rugged aircraft capable of taking off from one end of daisies ... at least if the field and well rolled, mowed and long enough.

The main news on the operations of 737 from semi prepared runways we can find on the website dedicated to him, here.

This kind of skiing is actually little more than a fender. is to prevent the stones from the wheels of the front elevations, can be projected into the engines or other parts of the plane.
engine nacelles have special compressed air jets properly oriented, that are designed to remove the lighter materials from the air intake and prevent them from being ingested by the compressor.
compartment in the cart are metal grids in order to prevent any debris thrown up by tires, could damage vital parts of the plant.

flaps are also provided for additional protection.
All photos "techniques" come from the site www.b737.org.uk

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